By Brendan Rees
The number of Covid-19 cases confirmed in Casey City has remained at 53 – with one case reported over the past five days, according to the state’s latest health data.
The Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services figures showed the total number of coronavirus cases in Victoria was 1336.To date, 15 people have died from coronavirus in Victoria with no no new deaths reported in the past 24 hours as of 22 April.
While two new cases were added, two existing cases were reclassified to another state as per national protocols – meaning the overall number of cases has not changed.
In other parts of the southeast, 14 cases have been recorded in Greater Dandenong and 13 in Cardinia.
The total number of cases in the state is made up of 695 men and 641 women, with people aged from babies to their early nineties.
There are 135 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Victoria that may have been acquired through community transmission. Currently 29 people are in hospital, including 12 patients in intensive care. 1,243 people have recovered. More than 90,000 tests have been completed.
Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours (as of Wednesday 22 April) Victoria Police officers had issued 95 fines to those breaching the directions in relation to staying at home, restricted activity and isolation directions after conducting 1,043 spot checks across the state.
Examples of breaches included three people who booked a short stay accommodation so they could hang out and allegedly take drugs; multiple young people leaving a friend’s house after a night of video games; and two people intercepted driving in Box Hill – where the driver was unlicensed and the passenger was found possessing a weapon.
The Victorian Government will implement a range of temporary emergency measures to support Victorians by introducing a bill on Thursday 23 April which sets out a range of temporary changes to protect tenants and injured workers and allow vital government functions to continue operating in line with social distancing and other requirements advised by the Chief Health Officer.
Meanwhile, new state-based modelling shows had staying at home and other physical distancing requirements not been enforced to slow the spread of coronavirus, Victoria would have seen up to 58,000 new coronavirus cases every day at the peak of the pandemic.
The modelling, undertaken by Monash University and the Doherty Institute, in collaboration with epidemiology experts in the Department of Health and Human Services also revealed that if a business-as-usual approach had been adopted, as many as 9,200 Victorians would have been presenting to hospital every single day.
